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Patented May 24, 1892.

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MATTHEXV T. SCOTT AND JAMES L. BRASFIELD, OF BLUE SPRINGS, MISSOURI,ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO XVILLIAM G. GORE, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,707, dated May 24,1892.

Application filed February 24. 1892. Serial No. 422,666. (No model.

To all whom 212': may concern:

Be it known that we, MATTHEW T. SCOTT and J AMES L. BRASFIELD, citizensof the United States, residing at Blue Springs, in the county of Jacksonand State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Oar-Coupling, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple andineXpensivecar-coupling, which will couple automatically, and which maybe readily uncoupled from the top of a car without injury to theoperator by passing between the cars, and which may be readily raised tocouple with the ordinary pinand-link coupling.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a car-couplingconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig.2 is a horizontalsectional view. Fig. 3 is a plan view illustrating the coupler arrangedto receive a pin and a link. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective of thepin-and-link attachment.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

1 designates the draw-head, having a stationary jaw 2 arranged at oneside and provided at its other side with a spring-jaw 3, and having aspace between the jaws adapted for the reception of the stationary jawof a twin coupling. The stationary jaw is shouldered at its outer sideand has its outer end beveled slightly on both faces, and itis adaptedto be engaged by the spring-j aw 3 of a twin coupling. The spring-jaw 3is shouldered on its inner face, and it is adapted to engage thestationary jaw of another coupling.

The cars are uncoupled by a vertical shaft 4., which is j ournaled insuitable bearings on a car 5. It is provided at its upper end with anordinary hand-wheel 6, and it has its lower end connected to chains 7and 8, which are connected, respectively, with the on ter end of thespring-j aw 3 and with a lever 9, arranged in the groove 10 of thestationary jaw 2. The lever 9 is fulcrumed intermediate its ends. It isarranged longitudinally on the stationary jaw at the outer face thereofand its outer end extends beyond the shoulder of the staside of the car,and when the shaft is turned to wind the chain around it the spring-j awwill be drawn away from the stationary one and the outer end of thelever will be thrown out Ward laterally. The pulley 13 is arranged in asuitable bracket 14. and enables the lateral pull upon the spring-jaw tobe more direct. The jaws may be held against coupling by a pawl 15 and aratcheewheel 16, arranged on the top of the car. The rod 12 is arrangedin a transverse opening of the draw-head, and the chain 7 is providedwith a turn-buckle take-up 17 to increase or diminish the length of thechain 7 to equalize the chains, whereby the proper pull on the spring-jaw and the uncoupling-lever may be obtained.

WVhen it is desired to couple the car 5 with a car having the ordinarypin-and-link coupling, a pin-and-link attachment 18 is fitted on thedraw-head and is provided with the ordinary link-cavity 19 and acoupling-pin perforation 20. The pin-and-link attachment is providedwith a longitudinal slot 2l,whichis adapted to receive the stationaryjaw and which conforms to the configuration of the same, and its side 22is recessed and shaped 0 that it may be readily uncoupled from the topof a car. By means of this ready coupling and uncoupling trains may bemade up in much less time than bythe ordinary coupling.

What is claimed is 1. In a car-coupling, the combination of a draw-headhavinga stationary jaw at one side, a spring-jaw arranged at the otherside, a lever arranged on the stationary jaw, and means for moving thelever and the spring-j aw laterally, whereby cars may be uncoupled,substantially as described.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination of a draw-head having astationaryjaw at one side shouldered on its outer face and provided with alongitudinal groove, a lever arranged in the groove and fulcrumed on thestationary jaw, a spring-jaw arranged at the other side of the draw-headand shouldered on its inner face, a shaft, and chains connected with theour own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of twoWitnesses.

MATTHEW T. SCOTT. JAMES L. BRASFIELD; Witnesses:

J. T. WEATHERFORD, 'l. H. WITT.

